Re: [LIB] Overlay program wanted

[Raymond]

Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:36:31 +0800
From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Overlay program wanted

At 10:09 AM 18/11/2002 -0800, you wrote:

Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:07:26 -0500
From: David Nedved <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Overlay program wanted

Hi All,

I'm upgrading my HD to a 40 gb.  I've got Win98 loaded and running on an
8gb partition, and I'm all ready to add the overlay and be able to access
the remainder of the drive.  I've used IBM Disk Manager before, but it has
a horribly cryptic menu system.  The only options that would seem to make
sense, are to convert the drive to their proprietary format (what does that
mean?) or to let it blow away my partition table and recreate it.

I'm using EZ-Bios 9.06W by Micro House International (it did ship for Western Digital but it doesn't seem to mind the Fujitsu I've got) and have had it work nicely on both my L50 and L100. Somewhere in the archives are 2 speals by me on how to get it all working with various setups (for instance I'm now using in with a 20 gig Fujitsu, triple booting Win98SE, Red Hat Linux 6.2 and Win2k, all accessing the hard drive through the overlay). I did run into a few pitfalls which you may like to avoid! Search for ezdrive.zip or ezdrv909.zip in the archives. Note that EZ-DRIVE distribution version 9.09W actually contains EZ-BIOS version 9.06W ... go figure ... hehe

Just remember that once it's on there, any time you modify the partition table, you *must* have booted from the hard drive and loaded EZ-Bios. Forgetting to do this is a sure way of screwing up the partition tables as everything will be offset by 8KBytes. Also, whilst it *is* possible to install it and not destroy your current partitioning scheme, in my experience unless it's a stock standard partitioning scheme, it's better to install it and get it to blow everything away. Oh and remember to leave space for hibernation at between 1010 and 1040 cylinders!


Hope this helps!

- Raymond

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